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Srishti Quiz I

Ques 1. Give the funda for the following pic which is obviously the logo for the legendary game Quake's first issue: (hint: the answers lies in the music)

The nail in the picture was suggested by the rock band Nine Inch Nails who gave the music for the game.

Ques 2. What is being celebrated in the Google logo shown here(Date: January 1, 2008), no its not fully the new year celeberations

Its the 25th anniversary of TCP/IP.

Ques 3. What is the following picture logo for?

Its the logo for Star Trek Wookiepedia

Ques 4. What is being described here:
"The flat, Earth-like world of X Y is simulated on a large array of Debian servers, referred to as the Grid. The world is divided into 256x256 m areas of land, called Regions. Each Region is simulated by a single named server instance, and is given a unique name and content rating (either PG or Mature). Multiple server instances can be run on a single physical server, but generally each instance is given a dedicated CPU core of its own. Modern servers with two dual-core processors usually support four separate server instances."(hint: think internet)
Online vitrual world, Second Life

Ques 5.

* A TAM was often used in a dark room on the set of The Pretender.
* A TAM was featured and used as the house computer on the seventh season of the MTV reality program The Real World.
* Although the TAM was on a limited run, one managed to end up on the set of the NBC program Seinfeld. It can be seen in some episodes in the last season, on the desk in Jerry's apartment.
* A TAM was also featured as Alfred Pennyworth's computer in the film Batman & Robin.
* A TAM was spotted in the movie Children of Men.
* Howie's dad has a TAM in his office in the movie L.I.E.
* A TAM was also seen in the animated serial Serial Experiments Lain.
Here is a picture of TAM.....identify it(hint: try expanding it)

Twenty-fifth Anniversary Mac

Srishti Quiz II

Ques 1. The name for the company X comes from the word's general definition, used in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Name X.
Yahoo!

Ques 2. The logo shown here belongs to one of the few companies that Apple Inc. acquired, what is so special about it

NeXt, founded by Steve Jobs

Ques 3. What is the following list of:

* Alaeada
* Bad Bunny
* Binom
* Bliss
* Brundle
* Diesel
* Kagob
* MetaPHOR (also known as Simile)
* OSF.8759
* RST
* Staog
* Vit
* Winter
* Winux (also known as Lindose and PEElf)
* ZipWorm
* Bukowski
(its an exhaustive list)
This is the list of all known viruses on Linux

Ques 4. Connect all the pictures shown below:

The pictures are of; Wikiquote, Wikiversity, WikiNews and Wiki Species: all Wikimedia products

Ques 5. ABC is a project planned by Google for user-generated articles on topics ranging from "scientific concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions." It was announced on December 13, 2007. ABC pages are "meant to be the first thing someone who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read" The term ABC, named after a "unit of knowledge", refers to both the project and an article in the project. According to BBC, ABC has been seen by many as Google's attempt to compete with Wikipedia.
Google KNOL